“Access thinking is all about how can we connect people better to those critical destinations they need to get to, and do so in a way ideally that works for everyone with different ranges of incomes, that does so in a way that doesn’t endlessly consume all of the land that’s available, and doing it in a way that maintaining all that infrastructure, that it’s fiscally sustainable,” Tomer explains.

“Because of technology, because of being able to deal with metadata now,” Gutman says, “we’re actually able to measure and report much more inexpensively than we had in the past. I think that’s really a major breakthrough. Now is the time to be able to do this, because we have the instruments and the modeling at hand to be able to move in a very big way toward a measure of accessibility.”